Titles That Premiered at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Through the Years

After the death of his adopted mother, a Canadian man travels to rural India desperately searching for the birth family he's never known and seeking to unravel the mystery surrounding his adoption.

Two people from very different backgrounds fall in love and decide to get married, but not without their parents blessings. Three days before the wedding they introduce each other with their respective parents and all hell breaks lose.

In the neighbourhood, chess is a popular pastime with men being the most visible players. In this backdrop a domestic worker, a young woman in love and a former journalist make their moves with care.

'Superpower girl' Mina. Top of her class, the center of attention and envy. 'No-power girl' Juri. Her classmates sometimes forget she even exists. One day, Mina can't seem to close her eyelids, while Juri discovers her hidden powers. A weird series of events to these teen girls shock the world!

In the remote mountains of Tibet, a teenage girl must choose between supporting her family after her father's political imprisonment or joining a group of oppressed nuns on their journey to freedom.

Dhaanu, a poor villager, heavily in financial debt, stealthily returns from the city to the village one night. He is hiding from a moneylender who he owes a handsome sum of money. Pushed against the wall, he decides to sell his donkey, Bhasmasur, in the city. Dhaanu's son Tipu, who yearns to go the annual fair in the city, shares a very strong bond with the donkey, Bhasmasur. Tipu in his own childish ways tries to stop Bhasmasur from being sold, but remains unsuccessful. Dhaanu decides to take Tipu to the city too. The trio set off on a journey from the in lands of Rajasthan towards the city, by foot. Along the journey, numerous events take place, bringing the father and son closer. But, will Dhaanu be able to make this bond last?

When a caste discrimination prevents a villager from giving hos deceased father a rightful burial, he takes his fight for equality to court.

The story revolves around Nimmo (Patil), who is soon to be wed. Her only friend, and constant companion is a little boy (Dave) who also has a massive crush on her. While the little boy's innocence prevents him from understanding the complications of marriage, it does not prevent him from trying some wacky ideas to keep his love from marrying someone else.

'Death' is an ultimate truth. Each one of us is radically aware that at some or the other point of time in life, the death, is going to come to meet us and end our role. But still Ramnath Desai leaves no stone unturned to unveil the answer of this riddle.

'The Summer of Miracles' narrates a nine-year old boy's obsession to become invisible, his relentless efforts to achieve that and the consequences of his actions on people around him.

10 year old Tsering lives in the difficult terrain of the Himalayas. One day he accidentally breaks his friend's school chair. When he decides to bring the chair back to his village, the 7 kilometres long journey back home in mountainous landscape on a donkey, becomes even more arduous than usual. Chair is the metaphor for the awakening journey, quest for inner truth and reality, which people aspire to find in the adult world.

SHALOM BOLLYWOOD reveals the unlikely story of the 2000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world's largest film industry.

The movie depicts the life of a tribal youth named Prakasan who lives with his mother and sister in Chamakundy, Kerala. He dreams of having a job in a city, which comes true. Prakasan's designated job is a health care worker which includes locating prostitutes to distribute condoms and spread awareness. He finds it hard to wrap his head around this in a fast paced life.

Namya is on a journey with a goat to fulfil his mothers dreams. But the notorious goat won't make the journey easy. Set in beautiful landscapes of Western India, is a story about friendship, humanity, sacrifice and wisdom.

Chumbak is a coming-of-age story of a 15year old table-cleaning-waiter-boy Baalu and his chance encounter with a 45 year old mentally slow man Prasanna that forces him to make a choice between his dreams and morality.

The adventures of eight-year-olds Chaani and Balu as they try to save a fish, believing its fate to be tied to Chaani's ailing mother, set in drought-stricken Maharashtra. Will they succeed in their pursuit?

In order to be independent and break free from the conservative society, four women sets on a journey to discover freedom and happiness.

Drought stricken eastern part of Maharashtra where close to 23,000 farmers have committed suicides since 2009, the Christian missionaries decide to sell the land which was given to the lower cast in exchange of their conversion to Christianity a couple of decades back. Father Benedict Deddario, is entrusted with this task. His biggest paix de la résistance is the poor local lower cast leader Vinya. Aside from the matter of land Benedict is most shaken by Vinya's resilience and unwillingness to convert to Christianity. Benedict will stop at nothing to not only sell the land but also to get Vinya to convert. Even if that means using Vinya's power hungry wife against him. While Vinya has to come to terms with a suicide that he could have prevented, especially when he had seen father do the same.

A couple's caustic, increasingly jarring interactions over a Mumbai evening strain their relationship until it threatens to break at its fraying seams.

Two shepherds living on top of an unknown mountain go searching for an aircraft that crash landed somewhere nearby even as different teams sent by the aircraft's team get lost on the mountain.

Eighty-five-year-old Philip hopes to reunite with his late wife in the afterlife. A dream where he couldn't recognize her face among women in a barren landscape jeopardizes his yearning for their reunion.

For Kunjambu, Chindan Muthapan is a legendary hero - a figure in his grandmother's fairytales. Chindan is a hunter, the only man in the village who knows how to use an English barrel. As a kid, Kunjambu dreamt about Chindan, where the man with the gun rescued him from his nightmares. When Chindan walked into the forest holding the gun, the young Kunjambu followed him. Even after becoming an adult, Kunjambu remains fascinated with the gun. Then, one day, Kunjambu has to turn in his gun at the local police station, as part of a mandatory requirement during elections - an act that changes his life.

The movie portrays the soul and real ambiance of Majuli, the largest river island on earth. The movie which opens with a soul pleasing shot of the river Brahmaputra with a ship ferrying, takes us to the river island and introduces us to the unvarying and routine life of Moukon, Luit, Simanta, Joi, Topon, and Bhaskar. Moukon, a young carefree girl finds herself at the center of some mysterious deaths after which she is socially considered a jinx. Simanta, Joi and his friends are well qualified but are still in search of a substantial life. Life is also indifferent for Luit who moves from door to door by selling insurance policies and has no better resolutions for the future. Amidst all the scrambling there is also space for some untainted love stories at the core of Bornodi Bhotiai which takes the movie to its ultimate culmination.

A testament of time written in Old Delhi, past and present plotted in its lanes. The narrative moves like a homeless migrant, changing space and structure with each unfolding event, living in the twilight between the real and the dream.